Creating A Wall-O-Memories
Whilst my wife was looking for a new pair of jeans at Promod at 1Utama, I looked around and saw:
- Guys who looked very bored and out of place whilst waiting for their wives/girlfriends to finish their shopping. These are the same guys that when they catch you staring at them, start acting all macho and LLB (look-like-busy) by playing with their mobile phones or other gadgets, trying to tell you ‘Eh, I’m not like you lah, waiting on your girl whilst she shops… I have other things to do also leh’
- And this… a wall plastered with picture frames of different sizes. The storelady was gracious enough to allow me to take a photo with my camera phone
This is a real good idea for those of you with a wall which needs decorating, whilst at the same time tell the story of your life in pictures. A setup like this would not cost very much at all, at most approx RM300 to cover up a reasonably large area of your wall. You could go to IKEA and choose between the RIBBA (black frame, 1″ thick side profile) or NYTTJA (various colours, 0.3″ side profile).
The RIBBA frames cost a little more but definitely look classier, with a more designer frame feel. Just to give you an idea, the RIBBA 5R frame sells for RM19.90. With RIBBA, all you have to do is buy frames of several sizes and start arranging them any way you like. Start with a focal centre point when hanging your frames as your wall-o-memories could expand and span more wall space over time.
NYTTJA frames are much cheaper hence a less high quality finish to the wood. For RM13.90 you can purchase a pack of 2x NYTTJA 5R frames. I did not see any black NYTTJA frames when I was IKEA last weekend but figured if I were gonna use NYTTJA over RIBBA, then I’d be painting them black with acrylic paint (see ‘Affordable Art‘ post).
Do plan ahead and draw a rough sketch of how you want your initial set up to be before heading to IKEA. Bear in mind that you still have to print your digital pictures to fit the frames and the larger the print, the more it costs.
Definitely a good way to display family pictures or the milestones in your life captured on camera.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
hey great idea this. allows for small pics to cover up a big piece of wall without forking over a bundle for the large painting… smart. great site this so far… keep it up!
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